Teaching Chemistry Using Student-Created Videos and Photo Blogs Accessed with Smartphones and Two-Dimensional Barcodes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-16-2012

Publication Title

Journal of Chemical Education

Keywords

First-Year Undergraduate/General, Chemoinformatics, Laboratory Instruction, Computer-Based Learning, Internet/Web-Based Learning, Multimedia-Based Learning, Student-Centered Learning

Abstract

Increasing numbers of college students own cell phones, and many of these phones are smartphones, which include features such as still and video cameras, global positioning systems, Internet access, and computers as powerful as the desktop models of only a few years ago. A number of chemical educators are already using these devices for education. By the time they reach college, many students have created video content and shared it on Web sites, such as YouTube. It has become easy to create two-dimensional barcodes that include a universal resource locator Web address that can connect the Web browser on a smartphone to a Web site. This article discusses how these new capabilities can be used to teach chemistry.

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